Alu Alkhanov

Alu Dadashevich Alkhanov (20 January 1957-) was President of Chechnya from 30 August 2004 to 15 February 2007, succeeding Akhmad Kadyrov and preceding Ramzan Kadyrov.

Biography
Alu Alkhanov was born in Taldykorgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union on 20 January 1957 to a family of Chechens, and he served in the Soviet Army and police before becoming Deputy Head of the North Caucasus Transport Department of Chechnya in 1992. When the First Chechen War broke out in 1994, he supported Russia against the separatists, and he became Interior Minister of Chechyna in 2003, also becoming a Major-General of the police. After Akhmad Kadyrov's 2004 assassination, Alkhanov was appointed President of Chechnya, and he supported adopting Islamic sharia law in the republic. His rival, the former militant leader and son of the late Akhmad Kadyrov, Ramzan Kadyrov, defeated him in the 2007 election.